Film, Video The Chosen Few: A Cappella Gospel from Virginia
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Title
- The Chosen Few: A Cappella Gospel from Virginia
Summary
- The Chosen Few stands firmly in the great tradition of unaccompanied religious singing in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Although only a handful of African American a cappella quartets sing in Virginia today, Black four-part harmony groups were singing in Virginia at least as early as the mid-1800s, and the Tidewater region alone produced more than two hundred such groups in the century following the Civil War. Based in Newport News, the Chosen Few is rooted in this tradition, and was founded by Cornelius Smith and Bobby Hopson in 2012. The group is comprised of members from various churches across the Hampton Roads region. Together they received the 2015 and 2017 VEER Magazine awards for best gospel group. The Chosen Few also features Reverend Tarrence Paschall, longtime leader of the legendary Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake, who in 2012 received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor the United States bestows on traditional artists.
Names
- Library of Congress
- American Folklife Center, sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-07-20.
Notes
- - Group name: Homegrown from Home. 84
- - Classification: Music and Books on Music.
- - Tarrence Paschall Sr., Cornelius Smith, Isaac "Eyeball" Ellison III, Kenny Watts, James E. Carter Jr..
- - Recorded on 2022-07-20.
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- 1 online resource
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- 2024698062
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- video
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- online text